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SXSW is ramping up for its 2020 conference and has announced their first wave of keynote and featured speakers. Former President and COO of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aimé and artist and musician Kim Gordon have been set as keynote speakers while a huge roster of artists, musicians, tech leaders and storytellers…

EXCLUSIVE: Priyanka Chopra Jonas will star in Netflix kid superhero featureWe Can Be Heroes, a new IP which is being written, directed and produced by Alita: Battle Angel and Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez.
The under-the-radar project will see alien invaders kidnap Earth’s superheroes, meaning a group of…

EXCLUSIVE: For the first time since their 1978 TV airing, the Saturn Awards will be broadcasted via streaming under a new multi-year partnership with veteran TV producer Justin W. Hochberg. The nominations for the 45th edition which honors the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror will be announced on Monday…

In a new look at Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel, we learn not to underestimate sci-fi’s newest hero.
The 30-second Super Bowl spot gives a new look at titular cyborg heroine played by Rosa Salazar as she fights her way through Iron City and proves that she is not someone to be messed with.
Directed by…

“Look me in the eye when I’m talking to you,” says the “super assassin” played by Michelle Rodriguez in this trailer for The Limit, but you might need goggles to get the most out of her demand: The Limit is Robert Rodriguez’s 20-minute Virtual Reality action film first teased last spring at Mip TV in Cannes.
The…

Alita: Battle Angel opens in theaters on St. Valentine’s Day, which is fitting — the $200 million film represents a long romance between producer James Cameron and the source material, the cyberpunk saga created by Yukito Kishiro in the 1990s. Cameron flirted with making it into a movie in the mid-2000s (and even…

EXCLUSIVE:Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network has named Mauricio Rios, a veteran executive most recently at Telemundo’s Universo Channel, as its VP programming and acquisitions.
Before his three-year stint at Universo, where he was director of programming and scheduling, Rios had exec stints at NBCUniversal and Fox…

Producer Sergei Bespalov is suing Robert Rodriguez, accusing the director of causing production delays that led to $20 million in cost overruns on the 2014 film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
The suit, filed Monday in California Superior Court, alleges a “pattern of misbehavior” that resulted in the film running over…

20th Century Fox has taken the wraps off the first trailer for Alita: Battle Angel this morning, after first showing it to a crowd at Comic-Con over the weekend where they also screened 18 minutes of the pic based the Gunnm manga series by Yukito Kishiro.
Avatar‘s James Cameron and Jon Landau produced the ambitious…

20th Century Fox is slowly giving us small tastes of their forthcoming sci-fi fantasy pic Alita: Battle Angel. The highly anticipated movie based on the Manga GUNNM by Yukito Kishiro was pushed from July to December and then they teased us at SXSW with a whole Iron City, came to Cinemacon with some footage and now…

Alita: Battle Angelis headed to San Diego Comic-Con on July 20. The good news is that there won’t be a long Hall H line for the panel. On the other hand, 20th Century Fox isn’t going to make it easy for you to sit in on the panel.
Fans will have to participate in a scavenger hunt and winners will be able to see a…